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International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences INHIGEO ANNUAL RECORD I No. 47 Covering activitiesI generally in 2014 Issued in 2015 INHIGEO is A Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences & An affiliate of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Compiled and Edited by Wolf Mayer INHIGEO Editor Printed in Canberra on request Available at www.inhigeo.org 1 | P a g e ISSN 1028-1533 International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences INHIGEO I ANNUALI RECORD No. 47 Covering activities generally in 2014 Issued in 2015 INHIGEO is A Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences & An affiliate of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Compiled and Edited by Wolf Mayer INHIGEO Editor Printed in Canberra on request Available at www.inhigeo.org 2 | P a g e CONTENTS INHIGEO Annual Record No. 47 (Published in June 2015 and covering events generally in 2014) INHIGEO BOARD 7 MESSAGES TO MEMBERS President‘s Message: Kenneth L. Taylor 8 Secretary-General‘s Report: Barry Cooper 9 Editor’s Message: Wolf Mayer 10 INHIGEO CONFERENCES 40th INHIGEO Symposium Geosciences International Conference Centre, Beijing, China, 24-27 June 2015 11 41st INHIGEO Symposium - Cape Town, South Africa (in association with the 12 35th International Geological Congress, 27 August – 4 September 2016) 42nd INHIGEO Symposium - Yerevan, Armenia, 12-18 September 2017 13 Scheduled Future INHIGEO Conference 2018-2020 14 INHIGEO 50TH ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 14 INTRODUCTION OF THE “INHIGEO AFFILIATED ASSOCIATION” CATEGORY 14 INHIGEO CONFERENCE AND EXCURSION REPORTS INHIGEO Symposium, Asilomar, California, USA, 6 to 10 July 2014, with intra- and post-meeting field trips to Point Lobos and the Sierra Nevada 15 Sessions I-V 16 Intra-symposium Field Trip: Excursion to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve 20 Sessions 6-7 21 Post-congress fieldtrip: The Sierra Nevada, California 22 OTHER CONFERENCE REPORTS German Historical Institute, Moscow: The Soviet Arctic: Exploration, Investigation, Representation, Cornelia Lüdecke 28 33rd SCAR Biennial Meeting and Open Science Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: Presence of the past and methods and innovations in polar social sciences, Cornelia Lüdecke 29 3 | P a g e HISTORY OF GEOLOGY GROUP (HOGG) – annual record for 2014 29 AWARDS Robert H. Dott, Jr. – 2014 Gerald M. and Sue T. Friedman Award for Distinguished Service 33 to the History and Philosophy of Geology Gregory A. Good – Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree 34 Renee Clary – Dean’s Eminent Scholar Award 36 Andrea Candela – Moran Award 36 OBITUARIES David Oldroyd 1936-2014 37 Gordon Younger Craig 1925-2014 40 Albert V. Carozzi 1925‒2014 44 Alan Mason 1923-2014 47 Nazario Pavoni 1929-2014 49 Carmina Virgili 1927-2014 51 Dan Hardy Yaalon 1924–2014 53 Alexey Ievlev 1970-2014 56 Boyan Vrablyanski 1922-2015 58 ARTICLES Abu Rayhan Biruni and the formation of geodynamic ideas in geology, Bakhtiar. S. Nurtaev 59 Considerations regarding the term “ plate tectonics“, Nazario Pavoni 61 Karol Bohdanowicz (1864-1947): Famous Polish geologist - great expert on the geology of Asia - Director of the Russian and Polish Geological Surveys, Marek Graniczny, Stanisław Wołkowicz, Halina Urban, Krystyna Wołkowicz 64 Scenarios of Mexican Palaeontology in the late nineteenth century, J.A. Uribe Salas 68 Regional distribution and regional transfer: the institutionalization of chinese geology (1916-1945), Jiuchen Zhang 75 West meets east: personal reflections on 25 years of trying to unify the history of geology in Germany, Peter Schimkat 84 Research phase into the Precambrian-Cambrian geological history of Madagascar, Lala Andrianaivo 86 Timing of geological events in Madagascar, Lala Andrianaivo 87 BOOK REVIEWS Johnston, M. and Nolden, S. 2014. Hochstetter’s first Nelson diary, 27 July to 5 September 1859. Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 121 pp. Reviewer, Simon Nathan 92 Johnston, M., Nolden, S. and Hoke, L. 2012. Hochstetter’s Nelson diary, 6 September to 2 October 1859. Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 68 pp. Reviewer, Simon Nathan 92 Woodland, J. 2014. Money Pits: British mining companies in the Californian and Australian gold rushes of the 1850s. Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, pp. 282. Reviewer, Ken McQueen 93 4 | P a g e Hofmann, T., Blӧschl, G., Lammerhuber, L. Piller, W.E. and Ṣengӧr, A.M.C. 2014. The Face of the Earth: The Legacy of Eduard Suess. L Edition Lammerhuber 104 pp. Reviewer, Barry Cooper 96 Onoprienko, V.I. 2014. V.I. Vernadsky: Schools and disciples. Kiev, Inform.-analyt. Agency, 331 pp. Reviewer, Irena Malakhova 97 Alexandrowicz S. W. 2014. Stanisław Zaręczny (1848-1909). Geolog - wybitny znawca Ziemi Krakowskiej. English summary: Stanisław Zaręczny (1848-1909). Geologist and eminent expert on the region of Krakow. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. Komisja Historii Nauki – Monografie - 21, 131 pp. Reviewers, Zbigniew Wójcik & Andrzej J. Wójcik 98 Tarkowski, R. and Gołuchowska, K. 2013 (published 2014). Konstantyn Jelski (1837-1896) naturalista e investigador de América Latina. Edited by Sociedad Geografica de Lima, 51 pp. (in Spanish with an extensive bibliography in Polish). Reviewers, Zbigniew Wójcik and Andrzej J. Wójcik 100 Petrov O., Lapo A., and Zhamoida A. (eds.) 2011. The memoir of Lev Isaakovich Krasny: On the 100th Anniversary of his birth. St Petersburg. A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute Publish House, 224 pp. (In Russian). Reviewer, Zoya Bessudnova 101 Born I. von 2014. Úti levelek ásványtani témákról. Translated into Hungarian by Péter Fuchs from the original German text: Briefe über mineralogische Gegenstände (Letters on mineralogical subjects). Milagrossa, Miskolc, 308 pp. Reviewer, István Viczián 102 Vujic, S. (Editor-in-chief) 2014. Serbian Mining and Geology in the second half of the XXth century (Srpsko rudarstvo i geologija u drugoj polovini XX veka, printed in Serbian Cyrillic. Reviewer, Ljupko Rundic 103 Kölbl-Ebert, M. 2015. From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective: Impact Crater Research in Germany, 1930s-1970s. Ashgate, 380 pp. Reviewer, Gregory Good 104 BOOK NOTICES Ottone, E.G. 2014. Arrancando de las sombras la dilatada extensión del territorio: la geología de Olascoaga. (Emerging from the shadows the dilated extension of the territory: the geology of Olascoaga). Asociación Geológica Argentina, Serie ``B´´ (Didáctica y Complementaria), 31, 102 pp., Buenos Aires. 105 Grigelis, A. (ed.) 2014. Academician Juozas Dalinkevičius. Vilnius University Press, Vilnius, 856 pp. (English Summary) 106 Rudwick, M. J. S. 2014. Earth’s Deep History. University of Chicago Press, 360pp. 107 Krill, A. 2014. Not Getting the Drift: A Hard Look at the Early History of Plate-Tectonic Ideas. E-book available at krilldrift.com. 108 COUNTRY REPORTS Algeria 109 Argentina 109 Australia 109 Austria 113 Brazil 120 Bulgaria 122 Canada 124 Chile 132 5 | P a g e Costa Rica 132 Czech Republic 133 France 134 Germany 134 Hungary 136 Italy 137 Japan 142 Lithuania 144 Mexico 146 New Zealand 149 Papua New Guinea 149 Poland 150 Portugal 152 Russia 152 Serbia 156 Slovenia 157 Spain 158 Sweden 161 United Kingdom 161 United States 164 Uzbekistan 171 APPENDIX A INHIGEO Virtual Bibliography 174 APPENDIX B INHIGEO Honorary Senior Members 185 APPENDIX C INHIGEO Members and Associate Members 186 6 | P a g e INHIGEO BOARD 2012-2016 President Vice-President North America Professor Kenneth L. TAYLOR Dr Gregory A. GOOD Department of the History of Science Director, Center for History of Physics University of Oklahoma American Institute of Physics Norman OK 73019-0315 1 Physics Ellipse USA College Park, MD 20740-3843 USA Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Secretary-General Vice-President Latin America Dr Barry J. COOPER Professor Luz Fernanda AZUELA School of Natural & Built Environments Instituto de Geografía, University of South Australia Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (Mawson Lakes Campus) Circuito Exterior s/n GPO Box 2471 Adelaide SA 5001 Ciudad Universitaria, AUSTRALIA 04510, México, D. F. Email: [email protected] MEXICO Email: [email protected] Editor Dr Wolf MAYER Vice-President Asia Research School of Earth Sciences Professor Jiuchen ZHANG Australian National University Institute for the History of Natural Science Canberra ACT 0200 Chinese Academy of Sciences AUSTRALIA No.55 Zhongguancun East Road Email: [email protected] Beijing 100190 CHINA Past-President Email: [email protected] Professor Silvia F. de M. FIGUEIRÔA Instituto de Geociências Vice-President Australasia and Oceania Universidade de Campinas C.P. 6152 Dr Michael JOHNSTON 13083-970 Campinas 395 Trafalgar Street São Paulo Nelson BRAZIL NEW ZEALAND Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vice-President Europe Ex officio (Past Secretary General) Dr. Martina KÖLBL-EBERT Professor Kennard B. Bork Jura-Museum Burgstrasse 19 35 Whitetail Lane D-85072 Eichstätt GERMANY Sedona, AZ 86336-4501 USA Email: [email protected] Tel 1 928 554 4942 Email: [email protected] Ex officio (‘Episodes’ Coordinator) Dr Karen S. COOK 1534 Rhode Island Street Lawrence, KS 66044 USA Email: [email protected] 7 | P a g e 8 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear Members, As nearly all of you must know, this 47th number of the INHIGEO Annual Record is in fact the second to be published under that title. The first 45 issues appeared under the heading of the INHIGEO Newsletter. Practically every year our annual publication grows a bit longer and more informative. I trust that INHIGEO members (and, I hope, others as well) will find the contents of this latest number interesting and valuable. In reviewing INHIGEO activities during 2014, I have special reason to acknowledge the many people who contributed to the success of the 39th INHIGEO Symposium, held in July at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. Individuals who took part in the organization and operation of the conference and associated field trips are (in alphabetical order) Kenneth R. Aalto, Michele L. Aldrich, Victor R. Baker, Kennard B.